~Let me introduce you to our new chicks....blog hop coming!~

Good morning my amazingly crafty friends,

are you ready for Mothers Day?? OMG I was totally unprepared!
My husband came in the other day and said "Honey, do you know what Sunday is?"
I said "YES! We are going to the Ren FEST! Finally after 2 years I get to
see that castle" He said "NO what day is it?"
I replied..."Sunday??" hehehe I had no clue Mother's Day was this Sunday.


So I grabbed my Sassafras Lass papers and made this card for his mother.
I hope it arrives in time! Once again *Disclaimer* I am not a card maker! LOL
Now it is a running joke with hubby and I because he ass me to make so
many cards, he gets quite a laugh out of it!As broken hearted as I feel I wanted to introduce you to
our new chicks...they have not fully feathered, they are about 3 to 4 weeks
younger then our last chickens.
I spoke with several neighbors and they have
all come together so nicely and been so sweet about our loss.
Neighbors whom we have never met have stopped by and said
"So sorry about your chicks" genuinely concerned.
Anyhow....my husband had the amazing idea of not getting baby chicks,
but instead looking on Craigslist to find pullets that are a few weeks old.
Bypassing the the in house chickens...

HUGE Mistake! LOL
If you have never used Craigslist, let me just say, you are missing
out on so many crazies! LOL EVERY single time I use Craiglist
I leave hysterically laughing and amazed by who I meet!
We drove OVER and hour to meet this woman who told my husband she
was on a hill with a barn....let me tell you something...I know what a barn
is and this was NOT a barn! LOL
It looked to be 150 years old and falling off to one side.
Hubby neglected to tell me that she said "Be careful of the driveway"
As he RAMMED up the steep hill and we completely
bottomed out the minivan, he says"Oops, she said the driveway was bad"
UMMM hello??? BAD??? Honey you don't bottom out on a BAD driveway
you bottom out in a horror movie where people are going to eat you!
Right then I knew LOL.
I felt a little bit safer when a little girl ran out in nothing but
a t-shirt and rubber boots, she must have been 5 or so,
then her brother came out followed by
2 dogs and a DONKEY, yes a donkey! LOL
We left the van at the bottom of the driveway and started walking up the
long steep BAD driveway and the smell hits me.
Now mind you I am a farm girl I am by no means shocked by smells...
but this smell ...Oh my!
When I say she had over 200 chickens in her house and over 200 in pens
She proudly pointed out her "free range" chickens, which were the 50 or so
running "FREE" in the 10X 10 shed on top of garbage and tires.
With dogs and children ducking in and out.
We went inside *cough cough* ducking to get in and found her pen of pullets
and she told us these were for sale so I picked one up...
suddenly she SCREAMS OUT (and I so mean screams) NOOOOOOOOO
NOOOOOOO as I freak out and drop the poor chick on it's head
and she says calm as can be "Not her she is not for sale"
LORDY woman gave me a heart attack!

I am telling you I dd not pick up one dang chicken after that, you
could not pay me 1000.00 to pick up a chick around her ever again LOL

There is s much more than I can type and tell you, it would take
2 pages...but in the end after she spoke to the chicks about leaving
each one for at least 10 minutes, we left over 1 hour later with
10 chickens...and I like to feel we rescued those chickens.

The white headed one is the baby and she is my favorite.
I miss my calm leghorns though. They always ran to me when I came out,
these ones are more wild and it wll take time to make them calm.
It is a bittersweet day for our family.

Here's to hoping no one else feels the need
to take my chickens :) And the neighbors watch out for us
like I suspect they will from now on.

OK on to scrappy good stuff
TOMORROW: Be here! Clearscraps Blog Hop!!!!
PRIZES! FUN! ME! :) hehehe

Blog hop also coming up next week for Scrapbooking From
The Inside Out! Plus a CROP on Saturday hosted by ME! :)

So stay tuned, you won't want to miss these fun events!
Thanks for popping by to say hi
~Have a beautifully crafty Thursday~
~Pinky~